Another Day Without Power for Thousands, PPL Says

ALLENTOWN – Another day without electricity for some homes in our part of the state.

PPL is reporting thousands of their customers still don’t have power after Tuesday’s snowstorm. They say by Thursday, nearly all of the homes and businesses will have power restored. In our Valley, over 1,800 customers don’t have electricity, and in Schuylkill County, the number is over 10,000.

Regionwide, in their entire service area, PPL says they have about 8,700 outages:

Columbia         270

Dauphin          833

Juniata             197

Montour          11

North’d           901

Perry                842

Schuylkill        4,451

Snyder             44

 

The head of PPL said they have all-hands on deck, they’ve brought in additional crews, and they are working around the clock. They say hundreds of additional line and forestry workers to help their thousands of personnel responding to the storm.  They have some services for customers without power, and more information at 1-800-DIAL-PPL.

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